The new wave-breaker wall built by Solidere on the edge of the reclaimed landfill is assuredly a complex engineering infrastructure. This new city waterfront is nevertheless, still a terra incognita for most of Beirut’s inhabitants. The sound and video installation aims to trigger an appropriation of this space in order to incorporate it into the city. The strange sound propagating from the wave-breakers carries a reminiscence evoking either the sound of war, or the inside of the belly of a gigantic whale. By listening to those sounds and capturing the images associated with them, the visitors are induced to invent the common memory of the new city. The stillness of the water inside the concrete structure, contrasting with the intensity of the sound, highlights the peculiarity of the situation. At the entrance of the installation, an archived recoding of the sounds of the seashore at the very same location dating back to 1993 sets the stage of the work.